From Vice President Joe Biden:
Twenty years ago, President Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law.
That law said that if you want to purchase a firearm from a federally licensed dealer in this country, you have to get a background check first. It was a historic piece of legislation — one that’s kept 1.5 million of the wrong people from getting their hands on a firearm in the last 14 years.
But in the wake of the tragedy in Newtown — a year ago this month — we know we’ve got to keep working to build on that progress.
And so even after a minority of Senators blocked commonsense legislation to reduce gun violence this spring, we’re pushing forward.
President Obama laid out 23 executive actions to make sure the Administration took essential and rapid steps to save lives while respecting our Second Amendment rights. And since January, we’ve completed or made significant progress on all of them.
President Obama is keeping his word to make sure our families and communities are safe. See the progress we’ve made.
Those 23 executive actions are keeping guns out of dangerous hands. They’re providing support for communities to hire school resource officers. And they’re reducing the stigma around mental illness.
Now, it’s not enough to take these steps on our own — we still need Congress to pass comprehensive legislation to reduce gun violence. We need expanded background checks, and we need to create serious penalties for gun trafficking. There is no question that these kinds of measures would protect our kids and keep our communities safer.
No parent should ever face the horror of the scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Or a movie theater in Aurora. Or a temple in Oak Creek. Or the campus at Virginia Tech.
We’ve seen too much gun violence as a country. And if there’s even one thing we can do to save a life, it is our most sacred duty to try.
That’s where I stand. And you have my word that the President and I are doing everything we can to make sure no parent loses their child to gun violence.
Take a look at the progress we’ve made here.
Check the facts, in black and white.
http://data.baltimoresun.com/bing-maps/homicides/index.php?range=2013&district=all&zipcode=all&age=all&gender=all&race=all&cause=all&article=all&show_results=Show+results
Now you have me confused, what does the crime rate in baltimore have anything to do with what we were talking about?
@maybe Great post! Mr Dunn spews that crap constantly.
I wouldn’t be suprised if he has the upper torso of a human, the bottom half of a goat and wings of a vulture. He is every sin put together and made half human.
Just a diversion to hide ERIC HOLDER – SURE SLIMMED AWAY FROM FAST AND FURIOUS – OHHHS NO NOT ME!
His Boss is Too!
Joe Biden is a Idiot!
John, when someone breaks into your house to rob or kill you, are you just going to ask them to hold on a minute while you unlock your gun?
@Sad-Oh no, they can’t do that. They will either just scream for one of us to help them or they will die.
it must be terrible to live is a state of constant fear
I have been carrying legally for years, I don’t feel any fear and it has nothing to do with my weapon. The fact that I am carrying and have been trained to use it, that gives the criminals something to fear. Are you afraid?
maybe I don’t live in a world that I fear. Maybe I should have said, it must be terrible to live is a state of constant paranoia. That would fit what John, sad but true, and you describe.
Have you pulled your head out of the sand and looked around lately? The world, all of it, is going to hell and is dragging us with it. Being ready and being paranoid are 2 different things. I am a soldier, I have spent most of my life training for what could happen. I would be stupid if I didn’t think for 1 minute that by putting my gun down that criminals would do the same. My weapon is like my belt, it is a part of my outfit that I would never leave the house without. If you want to play the victim thats fine, you go ahead and figure if you were unarmed or unready that criminals would leave you alone thats up to you, I personally am NOT that stupid.
@maybe-very well said.
again, maybe you need serious help. paranoid /ˈpærənɔɪd/) is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. (e.g. “Everyone is out to get me.”) Paranoia is distinct from phobias, which also involve fear, but usually no blame. Making false accusations and the general distrust of others also frequently accompany paranoia. For example, an incident most people would view as an accident or coincidence, a paranoid person might believe was intentional.
that describes your thought process to a T
Now your words are starting to sound familiar, sounds just like happyguy.
Biden and Osama Obama will say anything to divert attention away from their criminal activity. Everyone is forgetting the NSA, IRS and Libya travesty by these thugs. Now they are trying to hide from Obamacare.
More people killed with hands and/or feet than by rifles and shotguns combined.
Old slow Joe. Hard to believe he sobered up enough to write this. If you really want to stop mass killings do something about all the mentally ill druggers running around the country. By the way, more people killed with hammers in the U.S. than with assault rifles.
When they put all the mentally ill in homes who are you going to blame? I see this consistent pattern of you and your ilk blaming anyone other than yourselves for every single problem we as a nation (and I bet you yourself) encounter.
How about this. Take some damn responsibility and keep your guns locked up and out of the hands of folks who might use them for nefarious activities.
John you are spot on. If you are going to own guns keep them out of the reach of the crazies and the kids in your family.
@John Colombo Jr. and DR Dunn, I agree I live alone and my house is locked as well as the guns. The first thing I do when I come home is drive by the front of the house to check for damage and then I pull around back to my garage. I unlock my back door and the first thing that is open when I walk in is my gun safe. The crime in my neighborhood has been terrible. I would encourage everyone to use Click fix in Mason City for problem issues, it has really been working well. http://en.seeclickfix.com/mason-city
The only ilk in this discussion is you and Dr.Dumb. You numskulls don’t understand that the gun control you are pushing only makes things worst. Check out a world map of the countries that push gun control and those that do not. Where guns are not regulated gun crimes are significantly lower. I doubt you will listen to reason but you should.
Mr Assnonymous where’s your proof on that statement. The NRA? The facts I see say just the opposite. The US has a high rate of gun crimes compared the countries with stricter gun laws such as UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia.
A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
1. In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control.
From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control.
From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and
from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who wereunable to defend themselves were rounded up and
exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935.
From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964.
From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970.
From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956.
From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminatedin the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.
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You won’t see this data on the US evening news,or hear politicians disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and propertyand, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the
law-abiding citizens.
Take note my fellow Americans, before it’s too late!Gun registration just makes it easy for the FEMA, Department of
Homeland Security, IRS agents to come and confiscate your weapons.
FEMA
was never intended to help disaster victims (super storm Sandy victims), DHS was never intended to protect American
citizens, and the 16,000 new IRS agents authorized by Obamacare are all there to plunder and tyrannize American citizens.
There are FEMA concentration camps throughout the USA, complete with gas chambers, watch towers, razor
wire fencing, railroad tracks ready and waiting for all dissenters of the plutocratic, communistic, socialistic, Satanic,
corporatist,
oligarchic tyranny of the New World Order, the one world Satanic totalitarian military police state dictatorship, Agenda
21 of the UnitedNations.
The American people are literally financing our own enslavement and destruction by paying the IRS’s extortion money.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/feds-preparing-for-war-with-americans/#ja6SldqX4p4Y5x7P.99
feds preparing for war in America? You have got to be kidding. I know you believe this but trust me, you need help
and the video is gone on top of it
Then go ahead and bury your head in the sand, maybe things will look better for you that way.
You should be used to blaming someone else, isn’t that what democrats do? I have a few guns but I think they are defective because they have not killed anybody, ever. The 1 in my safe hasn’t moved in a long time, the 1 that I carry hasn’t killed anybody as long as I have owned it and the rifles are so lazy they just lay there. Having a gun locked up is perfect for the criminals, he breaks in and kills me before I can open my safe. It is the ignorance that colombo portrays that will be the downfall of the Bill of Rights.
@maybe-It is Bush’s fault. And, do not forget you can keep your insurance if you like it. The Great Pretender said so.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again, I don’t know how anybody can claim to be a christian and a democrat at the same time, it goes against everything God has ever said.
You must go to trinity lutheran, where everyone is a self-righteous holier than thou extremist.
maybe, http://www.forwardprogressives.com/its-time-to-tell-the-truth-republicans-arent-christians/
first of all I had to laugh when I see you are trying to proove a point using forwardprogressives.com. Thats like trying to say that the national enquirer as a point of reference. Next time try a page that is actually worth reading.
which party fights for the poor, the disabled, the needy? Which party stands up for all Americans rights. Which party is seeking equality in pay between men and woman. Which party wants everyone to earn a living wage? The answer to all these are the Democrats and true Christians.
oh but wait…I’m sorry maybe in your mind these are all just examples of trying to buy votes!!!!
Which party is for murdering unwanted children, which party is for homosexuality, which party is for taking everything you’ve worked hard to earn and give it to someone else???? Who said give a man a fish and feed him for a day but teach him how to fish and feed him for a lifetime????
@maybe-You forgot to mention, which party lies everytime they open their mouths? Which party has more criminals in office?
My Bad
@ Kingdom Hall, nope. I am not a holier than tho, I can just see whats going on with my own 2 eyes and am NOT blinded by their lies.